A bit more than you, I think.
Growth rate last quarter: 7.2 percent, highest since 1984.
Stock Market since last March: up over 2,000 points
Deficit in 2003: 374 billion
Deficit predicted for 2003 just a few months ago: 455 billion
Not a touchdown by any means, but even the worst skeptic would admit that we're moving the ball down the field in the right direction.
We'll see what happens with employment over the next couple of months. I'm interested in how the holiday spending is going to go, too.
Again, if the economy was going into the toilet, 100 percent of the blame would be heaped on Bush's tax cuts. Why is it so hard to credit them for the economy going up?